Monday, April 15, 2019

Round-Up #15

From Research

Great article on the how Americans might start having to pay the real cost of their waste now that China has restricted importing it.

The same author, Alana Semuels, explains why only 3% of American grocery sales are online and are liable to stay that way.

I was looking for a good post-mortem on Google Glass and liked the site where I found one --it's called The Conversation, and its articles are held in creative commons. I could see this round-up becoming more and more just a digest of The Conversation.  This have I added it to my best of the free internet list.

Aphorisms/Shorts

How sad it must be to live on such a poor information diet, and with so little self control, that you think it is the job of other people to prevent you from seeing spoilers.

Netflix: because you watched a documentary based on research and facts, you'd probably love to watch ten documentaries of nothing but conspiracy theory.

Is it really that difficult to understand that a tax cut when the budget isn't balanced is simply free money for rich people?